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| able to get and to retain ideas/information; concerned with acquiring wealth/property |
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| to claim or take without right |
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| hackneyed, trite, commonplace |
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| to work on excessively, to thrash soundly |
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tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way
(n) petty, nagging criticism |
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| holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful |
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| to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid |
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| to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model |
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| a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute |
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| to avoid, shun, keep away from |
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| a strong denunciation; the act or state of stripping or wearing off the skin |
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| relevant, appropriate, apropos |
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| so great or demanding that it cannot be satisfied |
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| refusing to compromise, irreconcilable |
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| offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment |
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| generosity in giving, lavish or bountiful contributions |
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| to divide or spread out like branches, to separate into divisions |
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| a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination |
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| to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to |
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| habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little |
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| to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise |
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| capable of being held or defended |
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